7 22 Africa Vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Devoloping Country | a poor country whose citizens mostly work in agriculture |
Life Expectancy | the average number of years a person fro ma certain group lives |
Natural Resource | naturally occuring materials that can be used by humans |
Scarity | inadecuate supply or shortage |
Cival War | fight between different groups within a country |
Colony | overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country |
Coral Reef | structure formed by the skeletons of small sea animals |
Deforestation | widespread cutting of forests |
Desertification | process of removing salt to make salt water |
Drought | long period of extreme dryness and water shortages |
Genocide | mas murder of people because of their race, religion, ethnicity, politics or culture |
Immigrant | person who moves to a new country to make a permanent home |
Imperialism | system of building foreign empires for military and trade advantages |
Indigenous | native to or originating from a place |
Industrialized Country | country in which a great deal of manufacturing occurs |
Literacy Rate | percentage of people who can rad or write in a country |
Overgraze | to allow animals to strip areas so that bare plants cannot grow back |
Refugee | person who fleas to another country to avoid persecution or disaster |
Savanna | broad grassland with few trees, found in the tropics |
Subsistence Farm | small plot where a farmer only grows only enough food to feed his own family |
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